What are the top five Best concert's you have ever been to?

See list below Great question! I'm 48 years old so some of the shows and bands are dated. Used to see lots of music in every kind of venue: indoor, outdoor, amphitheater, park, street corner, bar, basement, etc.Top Five: Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense Tour (80s) - They remain one of my favorite groups and their show was clever, well-paced and really fun.

Grateful Dead: Every show (80s and 90s) - Although I'm not a huge Dead fan, they put on great shows that last forever and you get your money's worth. Plus, the fans are their own show. Peter Tosh (1980) - The tix were for Tosh and the Talking Heads but the Heads backed out.

So, we ended up with front row seats to one kick ass show. Tosh was as good as Marley to us. NRBQ (80s) - NRBQ is arguably one of the best bar bands around.

They did their own songs, covered others and even read poetry on stage. One show, they had Henny Youngman open.Priceless. The English Beat (80s) - Saw them at the Univ of MD old Ballroom.

It was a rollicking crazy fun show. The Bongos and Bangles opened for them. We danced so hard my shoes were wasted.

I've got to say that I've loved almost all concerts that I have gone to. However, here are my top five and well worth the money: 1. The Eagles 2.

Michael Jackson (back in the day) 3. Diana Ross (back in the day) 4. Rolling Stones 5.

Waylon and Willie (Jennings and Nelson) Yes, I'm an eclectic music lover! .

Most of the big names in the business Pretty much all the ones that are well known names were all terrific concerts. It would be interesting to get feedback for the artists who are selling tickets cheaper than these guys. My top concerts in no particular order: BB King Eric Clapton Pink Floyd Mark Knopfler Rolling Stones .

Concerts, yeah! 1. And 2.

Dan Fogelberg. Saw him twice in Peoria, was worth every penny! S passing leaves a hole in my heart.

Photo taken in Peoria. 3. Metallica, with Godsmack.

Both kicked butt. Metallica was awesome! LOVE them!4.

Damn Yankees. Bad Company was the headline, but Damn Yankees stole the entire show, for me anyway, with Ted Nugent, Tommy Shaw, and Jack Blade(s). Woohoo!

5.AC/DC. Don’t remember who opened up for them, started drinkin' a little early! ; ) Sources: my life ~wb's Recommendations Boston - Greatest ts Amazon List Price: $11.98 Used from: $3.54 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 158 reviews) I would've loved to see BOSTON before Brad Delp's passing.So sad..

My list... This is a deceptively hard question for me to answer, simply because I've seen SO many concerts, AND I like so many genres of music so what I've seen really runs the gamut. In fact, one artist alone who does make the list, I've seen 4 times and each show I've seen has been almost a completely different style of music. That artist is Elvis Costello, perhaps best known from his late 70's/early 80s days as one of the most important members of the first generation of "new wave", Costello has made a career of trying out different musical styles.

The first time I saw him live, he did an acoustic show with just him and his pianist/keyboard player (Steve Nieve - the original keyboard player for Costello's first band, the Attractions). He did 35 songs in 2 1/2 hours, just him, keyboards, and ocassionally he'd play the guitar. At one point he turned off the microphone and projected his voice throughout the concert hall.

This show will end up on my top 5, I'll say more about it a bit later. My point was that I've seen him 3 times since, the next time I saw him he played with the Imposters, who are essentially the Attractions (his rock band) with a different bass player. The next time saw him he had the Imposters backing him, but he was doing a dual set with Jazz legend Allen Touissant.

They did the same style show as Billy Joel and Elton John did on their face to face tour where both were on the stage for the whole show, playing together. Then the last time I saw him, he played with the Minnesota Orchestra, for the first 15 minutes they did selections from a full ballet he wrote, then he played several of his acoustic songs with the orchestra backing him. So one artist went through several types of music.In his albums he's gone just about everywhere but heavy metal (including a country album), and I'm a fan of metal as well.

In fact there's very little I don't like if it's of good quality...I'm not much into disposable pop, whether it be pop-rock, pop-country, or pop-anything (which honestly rules out much of what passes for country these days for me, but I love old school country). I even like rap/r&b/hip hop, and I've seen probably close to 500 artists over the course of maybe 150 concerts.To show the variety of music I like, I saw the Lilith Fair and the Ozzfest in the same year. So, top five are hard, but not impossible.

At #5, I'm going to put Prince's 07/07/07 show at Minneapolis' Target Center. Prince is one of my all time favorite artists, he's incredibly prolific, and again he's all over the map musically. This show was sandwiched between two other shows, a small set at Macy's (where he unveiled his new line of 3121 perfumes), and one at First Avenue for which I stood in line in 100 degree weather for 2 hours to get tickets, only to have them sell out 8 people in front of me (the only reason I stood in line was because the First Ave people told me I was about #900 in line, and there were 1,500 tickets, but somehow over 600 people must have been having their places held in line.

Anyway, he started late, and of course ended late, and I found out that he only got to do about 10 songs (he's planned over 20) at First Ave because he started at 2:30 am and they shut him down at 4 (he was only supposed to play until 3, bars normaly close at 2 in our area). But his Target Center show was 2 1/2 hours, he did 29 songs, including many old songs and some covers of other artists. He played with Wendy Melvoin from the Revolution and at one point brought out Sheila E on drums.

It was impressive and worth every penny of the $31.21 plus the exorbitant Ticketmaster fees. The only thing I did not like was that I had 2 really stupid teenage girls behind me who talked in an annoying faux Valley Girl accent and didn't know what they were shooting their mouths off about. #4 was Guns N Roses with opening act Brian May (guitarist from Queen) at the Fargodome on 07/07/078.

I wanted to see GNR since back in the Appetite for Destruction days, but I was in high school in a small town in northern Minnesota at the time and we didn't get concerts there. The closest concerts ever came was about 85 miles away, and no one of that caliber ever came there. By 1993 their concerts were legendary and they had become far more than a heavy metal band.

Their Use Yor Illusion albums were masterworks and this was a must see show.To top it off, Brian May is one of my all time favorite guitarists...Queen being within my top favorite bands of all time, I never got to see the band live, and once Freddie Mercury died, as far as I'm concerned I lost my chance...I have no interest in seeing them with another lead singer. But both Queen and Guns N Roses were artists which like Prince and Elvis Costello transcend genres, and are not afraid of pulling in music that is not exactly "rock and roll" within the context of rock music. May did an amazing set, only about an hour, but he did most of the songs off his amazing solo album Back to the Light, as well as a couple of Queen numbers on which he had done the vocals originally.

Guns did over 2 hours, close to 20 songs and were insanely good. Worth twice the $23.50 (plus of course exorbitant Ticketmaster fees) I paid, even though I was in college and on a budget. #3 was one of the heaviest concerts I've ever seen.

I was in Cleveland, on 07/07/079 at Public Hall was a co-headlining bill with Megadeth and Pantera with opening act White Zombie. I have seen White Zombie once since, Megadeth twice since and Pantera 4 or 5 other times since, but this was the first time I'd seen any of these bands and they were among my favorites. White Zombie had just had their commercial breakthrough with their album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music vol 1, the song Thunderkiss '65 was in heavy rotation on MTV.

Megadeth, after having been more underground (though pioneers of the thrash genre), were finally becoming popular in the mainstream due to the success of their 1992 album Symphony of Destruction, which most fans would count among their best (I personally think it was the pinnacle of their career). Pantera was still touring in support of it's second album A Vulgar Display of Power, also a breakthrough for them, and perhaps one of the heaviest, most agressive albums ever released up to that point (at least outside of the 'death metal' genre, which I've never been much into as it emphasizes a more growling, unintelligible vocal style...I like a little singing, even in my heavy metal). I'd say for all 3 bands, they were at the height of not only their popularity, but their creativity as well, they were all touring in support of their best albums ever, and I felt priveleged to be in town when they were all converging on the same night.

For $21.00, it was among the best bargains I've ever paid for a concert (the best value I've ever gotten for my concert dollar is a show that actually did not make this list, a show called Edgefest III held in Somerset Wisconsin in 1995, featured something like 14 bands all of which were huge on the alternative scene at the time, with headliner Iggy Pop, I paid $16.93). #2 - The White Stripes, 07/07/077 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, MN. The White Stripes are one of those bands which just hits me in a spot I can't fully explain or comprehend.To me, they are on a short list of artists throughout the history of rock and roll who I hear and I "feel" the music and am in awe of what they accomplished (the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Queen) on any given album or even song.

I first heard the White Stripes in 2000 when they released their White Blood Cells album...I heard the track Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground and realized I hadn't felt that way since I first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Then when I realized that the band was 2 people making all that noise, I was stunned. A guitarist/singer and a drummer, no bass...how revolutionary!

And it was this loud, raucus garage rock that just grabs me and rocks my world. So when they finally came to St. Paul, I had to see them. Particularly since they had just released their 4th album, Elephant, which was as far as I'm concerned, their Abbey Road, their Nevermind...it was a work of art...I'd never heard anything like it and it quickly moved to my top ten albusm of all times list.

Their opening band Whirlwind Heat was one I had never heard of before, and haven't heard much from since, but they were pretty impressive. Then the Stripes came out and over the next 2 1/2 hours, they did 33 songs.It was probalby the longest show of the tour, and for a band with only 4 albums to their credit, it was saying something. ONe of the greatest things is that their music is deeply rooted in the blues but nonetheless they create a unique sound all their own.

Also, worth far more than the $207/07/078 I paid. Though I managed to download many of their live shows from a website that would post them for free, they never posted this show, and I had to go onto several CD trading bulletin boards, but I needed to find a copy of the show I'd seen and I did. This is one of two shows I've seen where I was so amazed I needed to find a copy of it.

#1 is the other show I found a copy of, it's the show I've already mentioned, Costello/Nieve, 07/07. There were extenuating circumstances which also made this show memorable, but like I said, it was just two guys, powerful songs, a long show, tons of songs, just an incredible repertoire that focused amazing vocals and musicianship. It spanned Costello's career and contained some of his highest quality and most memorable of his works, showcased in a completely vocal format.

But this show was also memorable for another reason...it was the night my wife and I became engaged. This was the most expensive of the shows I've mentioned, at $42 (plus of course incredibly large fees), but worth every penny. Now, lest you think every concert I've been to was "worth every penny", I'll mention one more I saw only 10 days before, because there's a backstory.

I stated I got engaged on 1.217/07, well, our 5th anniversary of meeting was 10 days before 6/3/99. We went to see Van Morrison that night, and for $407/07/077 (plus fees), he did all of 75 minutes, just ran through his "hits", no encores, was surly and didn't even seem to want to be there. The only saving grace were the two opening acts, Taj Mahal and John Lee Hooker.

This was one of Hooker's last shows, and seeing him was amazing, but he was barely mobile by that point and it was more of a "last chance" kind of thing.So, whereas I've seen Costello 3 times since, Morrison I haven't bothered to see when he's come back..

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